Journal of Flow Visualization and Image Processing

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2004, Volume11

Issue 3

104 pages

DOI: 10.1615/JFlowVisImageProc.v11.i3

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J. Yon
CORIA-UMR CNRS 6614, Universite de Rouen, Site du Madrillet Avenue de l’Universite, BP12 76801 Saint Etienne du Rouvray cedex, France

G. Lalizel
CORIA-UMR CNRS 6614, Universite et INSA de Rouen, Avenue de l'Universite, BP12 76801 Saint Etienne du Rouvray, France

J.-B. Blaisot
CORIA-UMR CNRS 6614, Universite de Rouen, Site du Madrillet Avenue de l’Universite, BP12 76801 Saint Etienne du Rouvray cedex, France

An image processing technique is applied to a series of pictures of a liquid jet disintegrating under the action of capillary forces. The jet disintegration is controlled by an excitation device. The properties of the liquid-surface displacement are obtained by a morphological analysis of two-level images of the jet. A model based on the linear analysis of the jet stability is proposed to estimate the growth rate of the capillary wave. This model supposes that the image grabbing time is stochastic. To fulfill this hypothesis, a subset of the initial image series is extracted with a filter based on proper orthogonal decomposition. Eventually, the growth rate is found to be sensitive neither to the statistical properties of the image series nor to the number of images in the series.

DOI: 10.1615/JFlowVisImageProc.v11.i3.60 Download article, 17 pages

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